Tweet The EksoVest from Ekso Bionics is an unpowered exoskeleton that can provide some lift assistance for workers when they perform overhead tasks with power tools over extended periods of time. Read more… Neowin

Tweet The system requirements for Creative Assembly’s upcoming strategy title, Total War: Warhammer II, have been revealed. The game has also become the most pre-ordered game in the Total War franchise. Read more… Neowin

Tweet If you know Java, R or SAS, doing machine learning on Hadoop data just got a lot easier. Concurrent (see disclosure), the company behind the popular Cascading framework for writing big data jobs, has developed a new open source tool called Pattern that lets users export their models from statistical analysis applications and run THEM? at scale on Hadoop data with little to no code change. The reason for…

Tweet A few months ago I challenged the broadband speed goals in the National Broadband Plan. Besides my central thesis that speed had become the tail wagging the dog when it comes to national policy, I also responded to plan architect Blair Levin’s offer to debate the adequacy of 4 Mbps as a sufficient 10-year goal for rural America. From the column: Blair Levin, chief architect of the national broadband…